That’s exactly what I thought Mmm, Clara in a Sisters of Battle outfit…
The episode was … OK, not great. You could have left the kids out of it entirely and it wouldn’t have made much difference. Loved Clara taking command, loved Warwick Davis, the final attack was naff.
Gods, I hope Clara isn’t somehow related to River, that would piss me off greatly. My complete WAG - she’s the Master in human form again! C’mon, the Doctor says she’s perfect for him, and was there ever anyone more perfect for the Doctor than the Master (well, the Simms Master, anyway)
Wow… so weird to see the different opinions on this one. My wife and I agreed it was the best episode in ages. Can Gaiman take over as showrunner, please?
Yeah, it was kind of annoying for the kids to become standard annoying kids in danger when they had such a promising intro at the end of the last ep (figuring out Clara’s timetraveling hobby was very clever. I’d hoped for more from them.) But it was nice to have some of the companion’s home life invading the Tardis again. Made me miss Jackie and Mickey all over again.
But the cybermen were great for once. The Doctor/Mr Clever parts were engaging. The look of the inside of the Doctor’s brain was blissfully novel. Warwick Davis was great. (For a while, I couldn’t believe it was him. He looks so young! Isn’t he getting up there in years by now? checks IMDB… wow… he’s only 6 years older than I. :smack: I guess he was really young was in every movie of my childhood.) Clara was great. Really a return to form, I thought.
I’m even happy to see River in the previews, just so we can resolve her plot once and for all and be done with her…
This has to be thrown out there … she is River and the Doctor’s child. Her mother could just as well have been River is another form, and the father who raised her could have been none the wiser that he was not her biological dad.
Nah.
Clues:
She is a perfectly ordinary girl … but something happens to her (presumptively because of The Doctor) that turns her into an Impossible Girl.
She is a perfect Companion for him. Suspiciously perfect.
Possibly in her memory, if it seeped through from a time that now never was, and suspiciously thanks to Sexy having created the library for her to be run into (with the History of the Time War book laid out), she possess knowledge of The Doctor’s name.
Sexy is not crazy about Clara.
On the field of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, the first question will be asked:“Doctor who?” and the Silence is supposed to then fall. Not said is who the question will be asked of. And I don’t think Matt’s turn is up yet so this Eleventh is not yet falling. But to Trenzalore they go.
River has something to do with this. And while the teaser showed her grave we think we know she died(s) in the library (the Doctor’s past, her future).
But River handled the Tardis even better than the Doctor, why would it not like her daughter?
BTW, I’ll admit it. my heart skipped a little beat when I heard an “allons-y.” Man, I miss Ten.
I don’t think she is but it was an idea that has to at least be considered. I think the answer is (answers are?) going to be unsatisfactorily timey-whimey …
God yes. They both started out as phenomenal elements, and have both become tiresome crutches robbed of their glory by overuse.
I hated that part too. I thought Matt Smith was terrible at it, and watching him chew the scenery was annoying. I don’t always dislike him so much, but this was bad.
I did like the delivery of “No, you’re too short, you’re bossy, and your nose is all funny.”
I liked elements of Gaiman’s writing (especially how he managed a simultaneous Douglas Adams and Ursula K. LeGuin reference, the aforementioned assessment of Clara, and the Porridge plotline) but it fell far short of “The Doctor’s Wife” for me.
Does everyone remember when Clara tipped over a flask of something in the library in Journey to the Centre of the Tardis? Do we know what the hell that was yet? And what effect it had? Or did I just miss it because I was drunk?
Not lived… everyone was saved. I’d imagine that if the library kid could make bodies for them, she would have done so. The Doctor would have seen to it. Unlike the original people saved, and Donna, there were bodies left behind for River and her new family. So one could argue that the library kid could only disassemble, preserve, and re-make living bodies, not create new ones for people whose bodies had died.
When one of the soldiers complains that some of their equipment is missing all its parts, the captain refers to it as “a standard solid state, sub-etha ansible class communicator.”
I thought “ansible” was an Ender’s Game reference. Shows what I know.
The Cybermen reminded me a bit of the Modular Man from the Tom Strong comics - you can wipe them out but let one little bit survive (and I think we saw some “live bits” floating in space there at the end) and they will reconstruct themselves from available materials.
I agree with many of the points already made: the kids were annoying, Clara actually did something, the double-Doctor act was entertaining-ish, and Warwick David was awesome.
“Ansible” does appear in Ender’s game (and the rest of that series) but it was Le Guin who originated that term a few decades prior with her Ekumen/Hainish novels. She has been pretty liberal about allowing other authors to use the term for faster-than-light communication devices.
God I miss Tennant & RTD.
I wanted to like this one but the kids had no purpose at all except to be annoying. I don’t know if it was because BBC-America showed it with commercials, but it felt very disjointed and seemed like I kept missing scenes. I don’t freaking care one bit about the mystery behind Clara! Why can’t the companion just be a companion? Why does Moffet have to always make the show about finding out some big secret about the companion? Why was she suddenly this great commander who spoke all her lines like she had trained half her life in the military?
I hate the Cybermen.
And oh great, next week is the return of the Sontaran & Lizard woman investigation team. :rolleyes: It feels like Moffet is trying so hard to *force *the audience into liking something.
Mmm, Clara in a Sisters of Battle outfit…